20 AND 21, FORE STREET

20 AND 21, FORE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1210149
Date first listed:
30-Dec-1993
List Entry Name:
20 AND 21, FORE STREET
Statutory Address:
20 AND 21, FORE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1210149
Date first listed:
30-Dec-1993
List Entry Name:
20 AND 21, FORE STREET
Statutory Address 1:
20 AND 21, FORE STREET

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
20 AND 21, FORE STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Devon
District:
Teignbridge (District Authority)
Parish:
Buckfastleigh
National Park:
Dartmoor
National Grid Reference:
SX 74032 66134

Details

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7466 FORE STREET 1011-1/7/72 (South side) Nos.20 AND 21

GV II

Pair of houses, single building phase. Probably C18 or earlier with c1830s alterations. Stuccoed and blocked out; slate roof, gabled at ends; right end stack with stone rubble shaft and old pots, both cylindrical and square tapering, rear lateral stack to No.20 with old pots; cast-iron rainwater goods. Plan: main range with 2 long rear wings at right-angles, projecting into a rear court. Said to have flying freehold arrangement. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 2:1-window front with regular fenestration, No.20, to left, symmetrical. No.20 has a moulded eaves cornice, a C19 central recessed 6-panel door, lower panels flush, and overlight. 2 ground and 2 first-floor 4-pane hornless C19 sashes, ground-floor window left with a moulded architrave. No.21 has a recessed 6-panel front door to the left with moulded, fielded upper panels and lower flush panels, overlight. One ground and one first-floor window to the left, glazed with C19 hornless sashes. The ground-floor window has a moulded architrave. INTERIOR: not inspected but may retain features of interest. A significant element in Fore Street.

Listing NGR: SX7403266134

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
392269
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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